Never the right time for an injured D. Wright or Parnell BY JOE RINI The leap from high school baseball coach to major league manager may seem improbable – except if that major league manager is Suffern native Walt Weiss of the Colorado Rockies. Among his accomplishments, this former star athlete at Suffern High School’s […]
What’s Happening BY GEORGE J. DACRE The annual one day folk festival, the Borderline Picnic and Jam, will be outdoors at 7:07 p.m. Sunday, August 25 at the New City Ambulance Corps building site in New City. It is free with a large cast of folksingers and writers and will include a jam and song […]
First of its kind in Rockland County BY CHERYL SLAVIN About 100 medical staff, hospital executives and members of the public gathered last Thursday to celebrate the completion of Good Samaritan Hospital’s new Ambulatory Surgery Center, the latest in a series of upgrades for the medical facility. The first wholly separate ambulatory center to open […]
A line of thunderstorms Thursday evening was especially harsh on North Rockland, causing a spate of damage from Hoyer’s Ice Cream Shop in West Haverstraw to Holt Dr., Hoke Dr. and the Aldi/Rite-Aid shopping center in Stony Point. Trees were uprooted, at least two homes had roofs ripped off and Frances Hoyer of the ice […]
Start up or start over? Assemblyman trounces Cuomo’s “tax free” plan BY KATHY KAHN Start-Up New York–the economic program the Legislature passed it into law (S5903-2013) before it left for summer break–has Assemblyman Kieran Lalor raising a ruckus over its cost. Gov. Andrew Cuomo had been touring the state with the message that it would […]
It’s what Rockland has been waiting for, great new stores without the hassle of the Palisades Center Mall. Simon Group has announced over 80 percent of the stores that will take residence at the new Shops at Nanuet, located at the site of the old Nanuet Mall, due to open this fall. Here is what […]